Social engineering is arguably one of the most potent and persistent forms of cybercrime. There’s a reason why social engineering is so popular with cybercriminals: Hacking people is a lot simpler ...

PTA advises users not to share personal data or OTP codes, warning of WhatsApp hacking and financial fraud through social ...

In 2025, crypto hacks totaled $3.4B across 300+ incidents, where social-engineering and access-control failures dominated. Let's look at the major ones.

In a sweeping wave of cyber onslaughts this fall, a threat actor, dubbed "BattleRoyal," executed a myriad of sophisticated social engineering campaigns against organizations in the United States and ...

Social Engineering is a method that bad actors will use to trick people into giving them sensitive information or access. The types of information these criminals are seeking can vary. Criminals use ...

Human Resources platform Workday says it was targeted by a social engineering hack in which attackers extracted contact info and other information about clients. Workday says bad actors contacted ...

SYDNEY — Properly trained staff, not technology, is the best protection against social engineering attacks on sensitive information, according to security consultant and celebrity hacker Kevin Mitnick ...

In recent years, and particularly with the rise in use of social media, cyber criminals have taken to using psychological as well as technical methods of attack. Human beings, after all, are ...

The FBI warned today of North Korean hacking groups aggressively targeting cryptocurrency companies and their employees in sophisticated social engineering attacks to deploy malware designed to steal ...

For over 15 years I have been focused on this field called social engineering, and after all this time, we are at a point in human history where we will start to discuss these tactics from a ...

DAO governance manipulation is rising. Learn how LLM-Powered Social Engineering exploits voting systems and human psychology to undermine trust and decentralization.